The chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee died early Thursday due to complications from longstanding health challenges, his congressional office said.
The chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee died early Thursday due to complications from longstanding health challenges, his congressional office said.
Ms. Carpel did not sit home after she retired from her job and became a widow. She reinvented herself as a volunteer, showing up at public events throughout the city. Those she encountered were fond of her.
Ms. Carpel did not sit home after she retired from her job and became a widow. She reinvented herself as a volunteer, showing up at public events throughout the city. Those she encountered were fond of her.
Dr. Brobyn commanded an Army Hospital in Saigon during the Vietnam War and then was deployed to the Valley Forge Military Hospital in 1972 and 1973. He performed reconstructive surgery on some of the war's most seriously wounded.
Alexei Leonov, a Soviet cosmonaut who in 1965 became the first person to walk in space and who was scheduled to walk on the moon before the Soviet Union abandoned its efforts for a manned lunar landing, died Oct. 11 in Moscow. He was 85.
Dr. Hughes was a general surgeon at Roxborough Memorial and Chestnut Hill Hospitals. He earned his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College and later taught there.
Professor Bradley's intellectual life focused on the history, language, and literature of Russia, but it also informed his political activism. “I can’t imagine only doing activism, or only teaching,” he once said.
Mrs. Korman believed that nature should be accessible to all, so she created an exhibit at Morris Arboretum that lets children and teens climb on a walkway in the trees, 50 feet above ground. Its called Out on a Limb.
No social event in the O'Neill family was complete without Mrs. Johnson. She once greeted the birth of a granddaughter with a cooler of chips, sandwiches, and soda for the baby's parents.
Katz represented most of the unions in the city in the 1970s, his children said, defending tens of thousands of working people in the manufacturing, industrial, and trade industries.
Mr. Schiller was successfully treated for brain cancer as a boy. As an adult, he worked to assure that patients at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia got the same high quality of health care that he had been given, his mother said.
Mr. Battistini was grateful to Girard College for educating him after his own father died young. He called college founder Stephen Girard "a second father."
